The Dell Latitude 7410 boasts Dell’s company’s first low-power, low-blue light display, and chassis design. The new design isn’t a huge difference from the look and feel of last year’s Dell Latitude 7400, but the chassis is a bit more compact because Dell has shrunk the bottom bezel. Inside the four razor-thin bezels of our test device is Dell’s optional 14-inch, 4K display.
It looks gorgeous, but it still lets the battery go on basically all day. Even with the aluminum case, which is sturdy and built to deal with everyday stuff, the whole system ends up a bit more weighty than the 14-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7. So yeah, it’s “super mobile” for business people. At the same time, the Latitude 7410 is also pricier than the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 when you match up the specs.
Metalwork
The Latitude 7410 series starts at $1,579, for a setup that has a 10th Gen Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM, a sort of unusually frugal 128GB SSD, and a 14-inch FHD display. Our $2,189 test unit is basically close to the top end, with an Intel Core i7-10610U, 16GB memory , a 512GB SSD, and a 4K screen. There are 2-in-1 convertibles available in the Latitude 7410 line, but the one we tested is a standard clamshell model, with a display that swivels 180 degrees. That’s the sort of adjustment you usually get on a typical laptop, though it’s only half the flexibility you’d want if you’re trying to rotate fully into tablet mode.
Dell has trimmed the Latitude 7410 by shrinking the bottom bezel. Now, it isn’t any wider than the top edge, and the bezels on both sides still stay thin. At 0.7 x 12.7 x 8.2 inches, the Latitude 7410 feels pretty much like the Latitude 7400, except it’s about 0.2 inches smaller front to back . The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 on the other hand stays deeper, around 8.6 inches from front to back, and it’s thinner 0.59 inches, plus it’s 2.4 pounds lighter.
The all-aluminum Latitude 7410 is sturdy — passing MIL-STD 810G tests for shock, vibration, extreme temperatures, and other environmental hazards — but heavy for a 14-inch laptop at 3.1. pounds.
A Latitude 7400 model we reviewed last year has Dell’s SafeScreen security feature, which narrows the screen’s viewing angle to prevent nosy buddies from seeing what you’re doing. SafeScreen is offered on some Latitude 7410 models, but our test system offers many different new display technologies — the sharp 4K display wasn’t offered on last year’s models.
Unsurprisingly, images look incredibly sharp on this new panel , and the display also renders colors accurately. It’s not the brightest display for field use, but it’s bright enough for office work, and the Gorilla Glass cover not only protects the panel it also resists glare , and reflections superbly. There’s more to the screen than just its high pixel count. It’s a low-blue light display that’s meant to be gentler on your eyes during long sessions, and it’s also a low powered panel. Normally, 4K resolution has a seriously bad effect on battery life, but now you can have both clarity and endurance while unplugged.
Thunderbolt 3
The Latitude’s tank-like construction creates a hard surface to type on without any flex that gets in the way of the more fragile chassis. I immediately felt comfortable typing; the keys feel soft and very smooth to press, although I would have liked a quicker response even if that meant I wanted to create more racquets when typing. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon delivers that snappy feel and remains a champion for laptop keyboards — at least within my reach.
Dell removed the two mouse buttons from last year’s model and integrated them into the larger touchpad. The pad feels spacious and accurate to hover but is a bit mushy to click. The front edge of the touchpad lets you click but it’s sort of too low, so it feels a little uncomfortable compared with the keyboard surface. Also it gives me a bit too much scrolling, for my taste, and it leads to clicks that feel like they’re half a step behind.
Dell has actually doubled the number of Thunderbolt 3 ports from last year’s model, up to two on the Latitude 7410. They sit on the left side, with a full sized HDMI 2.0 port, plus a microSD card slot. Both Thunderbolt 3 ports can charge handheld devices, and the rear one is also the laptop charging port.
On the right edge, you’ll find the audio jack, a secure cable lock slot, and a pair of USB 3.2 Type-A ports, one of which offers the ability to charge the device. There s no Ethernet port though, you ll have to go with a third party USB to Ethernet adapter, or Dell s DA-300 mini dock. It adds Ethernet HDMI, USB C USB A VGA, and DisplayPort, so it kind of covers what you might be missing. The Latitude 7410 series comes with a few secure sign in choices, including a fingerprint reader that s built into the power button and facial recognition via an IR webcam. Our test system features the latter, and it is easy to set up and use. The Latitude 7410 quickly recognized my mug and unlocked it.
That 720p webcam is, honestly, enough for Zoom calls. The image is pretty noise free, but it kind of leans toward the warmer side of the color spectrum, so you may see a bit more red in skin tones. The system’s stereo speakers do give you decent audio for video conferences, and they’re fine for Netflix or YouTube, but if you actually want satisfying music playback you’ll probably need headphones, or maybe some external speakers. And when you’re not using it, you can flip the shutter to cover the webcam, just for privacy and that extra peace of mind.
A solid kind of performance, but not exactly spectacular
Our Dell Latitude 7410 test setup comes with a 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10610U, four cores, and 16 GB of RAM. This “parallel” style processor setup, gives you ample headroom for most business users. The CPU also includes Intel vPro tech so your office can remotely administer, manage the machine even when it isn’t connected to your network at the moment.
That said, the benchmark numbers suggest the Latitude 7410 doesn’t really pull ahead much compared with older, previous generation Intel silicon in business laptops. For comparison purposes, I picked three work-focused notebooks with 8th Gen chips—last year’s Latitude 7400, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7, and the Lenovo ThinkPad T490. To round out the performance chart I also included the new 13.5-inch Acer Swift 3, which uses a 10th Gen Core i7 “Ice Lake” processor and integrated Intel Iris Plus graphics.
PCMark 10 and PCMark 8 are kind of overall performance suites built by the PC standards team at UL (which used to be Futuremark). The PCMark 10 run we do usually simulates a bunch of real-world productivity as well as content creation workflows, not just one scenario. In practice we rely on it to judge the system overall performance on office-ish stuff, like word processing, spreadsheet work, Web surfing and even video conferencing. On the other hand, PCMark 8 includes a storage sub test, made specifically to measure how fast the boot drive is, so yeah it focuses more on that piece of the experience. Both tests yield exclusive scores; a Higher number is better.
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The Latitude 7410 didn’t manage to break through the 4,000 point barrier, that we usually call “excellent” on PCMark 10, while last years Acer Swift 3 and the Latitude 7400 were able to. The ThinkPad T490 with its eighth generation Core i7 chip also came out on top of the 7410 and the X1 Carbon, plus its eighth generation Core i5 model, but only by 21 points. I was expecting the Latitude 7410 to finish higher. All five of the system’s SSDs performed well on the PCMark 8 storage test.
Next is the test of Cinebench R15, which handles Maxon’s CPU, fully threaded to take advantage of all available cores and threads. Cinebench emphasizes CPU rather than GPU to render a complex image. The result is an exclusive score that shows the PC’s suitability for processor-intensive workloads.
The Latitude 7410 finished in the middle of the pack on Cinebench. Surprisingly, the Acer Swift 3 finished last while the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 – the only Core i5 based system – took the top honor.
Cinebench is usually a good predictor for our Handbrake video editing test, another tough, threaded workout that is highly CPU dependent and splits well with cores and threads. In it, we put stopwatches on test systems as they transcoded a 12-minute standard 4K video (the open-source demo movie Tears of Steel) to a 1080p MP4 file. It’s a test of time, and lower results are better.
Last year’s Latitude finished ahead of this year’s version and the rest of the systems, four or five minutes behind its pace. The Latitude 7410 finished a minute faster than the ThinkPad T490.
We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing standard. Using a version of Photoshop Creative Cloud released in early 2018, we apply a complex series of 10 filters and effects to a standard JPEG test image. We time each activity and add up the total. As with Handbrake, lower times are better here. The Photoshop test emphasizes the CPU, storage subsystem, and RAM. Still, it can also take advantage of most GPUs to speed up the process of applying filters, so systems with powerful graphics chips or cards can strongly see an increase.
Last year’s Latitude 7400 took the top honor again, but the Latitude 7410 came second in our Photoshop test. Any five laptops here will run Photoshop pretty well, but creative professionals involved in everyday design work will look for a system with dedicated graphics.
3DMark measures relative graphics muscle by rendering sequences of highly detailed, gaming-style 3D graphics that emphasize particles and lighting. We run two different 3DMark subtests, Sky Diver and Fire Strike, suited to different systems. Both are DirectX 11 benchmarks, but Sky Diver is more suitable for laptops and midrange PCs, while Fire Strike is more demanding and made for high-end PCs to strut their stuff. The results are proprietary scores.
Next up is another synthetic graphics test, this time from Unigine Corp. Like 3DMark, the Superposition test renders and scans a detailed 3D scene and measures how the system copes. This case is shown in the company’s Unigine engine of the same name, which provides a different 3D workload scenario than 3DMark, giving a second opinion on the machine’s graphics power. We present two Superposition results, running at the Low 720p and High 1080p presets.
These scores are given in frames per second , or fps, the pace where the graphics hardware keeps spitting out images in sequence. so basically it’s the frequency that decides how smooth the moving scene feels. Hitting 30 fps or above is a pretty realistic target for lower end systems, but on stronger computers you should see 60 fps minimum at the test resolution, give or take.
These business laptops are designed to run productivity apps and handle the occasional media editing tasks instead of intensive 3D games with integrated graphics. The Latitude 7410 gives predictable pedestrian results. The only system that stands out from the rest is the Acer Swift 3, which can flex the Intel Iris Plus graphics engine.
After fully charging the laptop, we set it up in power saving mode (not the balanced or high performance mode) and then made other battery saving tweaks. This was to get ready for our unplugged video, so we could do the throttling test, without too much extra heat or drain in the background. (We also turned off Wi-Fi, put the laptop on airplane mode.) In this test, we looped through a video — a locally stored 720p file of the same Tears of Steel movie that we watched used in the Handbrake test — with screen brightness set at 50 percent and volume at 100 percent until system termination.
Usually, 4K screens cut down battery life. Like, powering the display is basically the laptop’s biggest battery drain, and lighting up 4 times as many pixels as a 1080p panel—yeah, that often means short runtimes. But not here , not this time. The Latitude 7410 has a low power 4K screen, and it lets the system’s four-cell 52WHr battery go through a full workday on just one charge.
In our battery drain test it ran for 13.5 hours , no real drama. It still feels a bit on the low side, when you line it up with the Acer Swift 3, the Latitude 7400, and the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 mostly because those models tend to use lower resolution panels. That said, the Latitude 7410 hung on for about three hours more than the ThinkPad T490 did , and that one came with a 2,560 x 1,440 pixel display.
Still second behind X1 Carbon
The Dell Latitude 7410 is not without its appeal. The low-power, low-blue light 4K display looks nice and doesn’t drain battery life. That is the rare 4K laptop that will get you through the longest workday without looking for a wall outlet. The new chassis is sleek and durable, and while it’s a bit heavy for a 14-inch laptop, it’s very compact, thanks to razor-thin bezels on all four sides of the display.
With these newer components, the Latitude 7410 comes off as a solid business laptop, but honestly i t’s kinda hard to justify it, especially when you can pick up the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 for around $500 less. I did see a matching Gen 7 Carbon deal at roughly $1,700, and that one had a 14 inch 4K panel, plus a 10th Gen Core i7 processor, along with 16GB of RAM. Now yes, that specific Lenovo setup doesn’t include vPro, but in return you get double the storage with a 1TB SSD, a more comfortable keyboard and trackpad, and it’s about 0.7 pounds lighter than the Latitude 7410. Overall the X1 Carbon still feels like the business machine to beat.
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Định Bia has spent over 10 years testing consumer electronics with a focus on smart technology. He work as a product advisor at Biareview where he helped customers find the right devices for their needs. He personally tests every product featured on this site using a consistent evaluation framework covering quality, durability, and value. All reviews are based on experience, not influenced by the manufacturer.